Microsoft's new version of Silverlight on Moblin

September 23, 2009, 4:45pm PDT | Length: 00:03:22
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Microsoft General Manager Ian Ellison-Taylor and Intel General Manager Renee James show attendees Silverlight 3 running on an Atom-based Moblin device. The new software will run on mobile Linux Netbooks, phone as early as 2010.

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Microsoft's new version of Silverlight on Moblin

Introduction

>> Increasingly developers and service providers need to be able to target multiple devices. And so this is really what's Silverlight is all about. It's a lightweight runtime that can really target across the different screen types - the PC, mobile, and TV. And it's been available for a little while. We have a version today for PC and Macintosh, and through a partnership with Novell we have a Linux version as well. We've announced support upcoming for Windows mobile phones, as well as Nokia. So we just released our Silverlight version 3, has a number of new enhancements, has a bunch of new graphics features; in particular a pixel shade support, we have 3D perspective transforms, and HD smooth streaming video based on the HG64 Kodak. We've also added a bunch of new application features - a plethora of new controls, rich data binding, and a whole bunch of new data controls. Finally we've added support for out of browser. So now you can run Silverlight applications directly off the desktop, even when disconnected. So I think taken together, that allows a whole new class of rich applications running across these different devices.

>> Fantastic. So why don't you start... going down the line here and show us what you have?

>> Yeah, so let's do a little... do a little bit demo. So this is your classic PC showing a Silverlight smooth streaming movie. This could easily be a Macintosh, could easily be a different browser. I think you've seen some of that before. A little bit more interesting... so now we have same experience running on a Windows 7, running Netbook and still great performance, a great experience.

>> We're streaming the credits now.

>> It'll loop again, so we're good. Now much more interesting now is Silverlight running on... here we go.

>> Never seen before.

>> So this is what we've been announcing, we're introducing here. Same experience...

>> Same experience, same...

>> ... like click here, I can go...

>> So the developer can write something and run across all of these...

>> So we can go full screen.

>> We should mention this is actually a Core 2. So this a... full sized...

>> Yeah, exactly.

>> So we can go both directions?

>> And with smooth streaming in Silverlight you get... you get the ability to browse around without any of the buffering. So you get a great, great user experience. Finally we get to what I think is the coolest device. I have to crouch in front of the machine here... so I can just click the little...

Background discussion So here we go, here again is running the same smooth streaming high quality video on this little tiny device.

>> On Moblin?

>> Running on Moblin of course, and... I'm moving another way. I don't know whether you can see just how tiny this device is.

>> I think they can see it.

>> Yeah. So there you go. That's the basic demo around Silverlight and running on Moblin.

>> Fantastic, thank you.

Applause

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